On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 11:14 PM, Bruno Girin <brunogi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The fact that you can scroll back to see previous results is not easily > discoverable as the animation that pushes the previous result up is > rather fast. Some visual hint that you can scroll back through previous > results would be good. > Agreed. There should be some kind of visual indicator once there is some content to which you can scroll. Maybe some nicely styled circumflexes ^ ^ ^ Something like this. > Similarly, the fact that you can scroll the keyboard to get to more > functions is not easily discoverable. This is kind of move is the default system wide way to get more options, I think it won't be all too problematic. > Finally, I would render the C and backspace keys in different colours to > highlight that they do something special compared to the others. And > possibly move them to the right as this is where they tend to be on > physical calculators (i.e. swap them with the parentheses). > Agreed. On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 11:17 PM, Andrew Flegg <and...@bleb.org> wrote: > > No, I think the right fix (although I'm not on the Calculator team) is > to keep it evaluating as you type, but *if* the expression results in > a syntax error *don't* show that (instead, a blank or the last result) > *unless* another key has been pressed. > > i.e. > > Typed | Display > -----------------------------+----------- > 4 | 4 > 4 + | 4 > 4 + 2 | 6 > 4 + 20 | 24 > 4 + 20 - | 24 > 4 + 20 - / | syntax error > 4 + 20 - / bksp | 24 > 4 + 20 - / bksp 6 | 18 > > Hopefully that makes sense. That makes sense! I like this idea a lot. Cheers, Octavian
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